The Austin Peay Department of Languages and Literature is pleased to welcome four new full-time tenure-track faculty: Marisa Sikes (Asst. Professor); Neeta Bhasin (Asst. Professor); Laura Schultz (Instructor); and Pamela Magrans (Instructor). Please help me welcome these four faculty members to Austin Peay! We are glad to have them here. Come by and say hello when you get a chance. Each of the pictures has a name attached to it, so you will know whos who! We welcome Marisa, Neeta, Laura, and Pam! Brief Bios of Our New Faculty--- MARISA SIKES specializes in western European literature of the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on Middle English literature and conduct literature written for women. She has taught a wide array of courses including world literature, early and medieval British literature, Shakespeare, and a variety of medieval courses, including Chaucer and Medieval Tales of Wonder. She earned her PhD from the University of New Mexico in 2012 and delivered a paper at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference in Denver this June. Her other activities this summer will include trying to convince her husband to trim his shaggy beard before relocating to Tennessee and making sure her chubby cat isn’t crushed to death by all the boxes of books she is going to have to move. NEETA BHASIN received her PhD in English in 2007 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before joining the Department of Language and Literature at Austin Peay State University, she was an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York. Her areas of specialization include discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and rhetorical studies. Her research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of language and identity, with special emphasis on immigrant and diasporic identities, the relationship between language and culture, race and ethnic studies, and nationalisms. Her scholarly pursuits are now moving into areas of refugee and forced migration studies. She is particularly interested in exploring issues of ethnic cleansing and displacement/deterritorialization of people who are forced to migrate due to wars and conflicts. LAURA SCHULTZ is originally from Wisconsin. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Languages, Literature and Translation from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. For the past four years, she taught Spanish courses at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. She loves to study language and culture, travel, and translate, and enjoy sharing the Spanish language with my students. She looks forward to meeting all her students this semester! PAMELA RODDY MAGRANS received her B.A. in English (1995) and M.A. in English (2000) from APSU. Over the past ten years, Ms. Magrans has been working as adjunct faculty and as a full-time temporary instructor for APSU Languages and Literature Department. The 2014-15 year is her first year as tenure-track faculty. Ms. Magrans teaching experience includes ENGL 1010, 1020, and 2030, online, on-ground, and hybrid formats. In addition to teaching for APSU, Ms. Magrans is also a staff writer for Clarksville Family Magazine, where she has been writing for seven years. In her spare time, she enjoys watching her two sons in their various sporting venues.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:08:43 +0000
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